Lydia hit with Wabbajack stick and disappeared!

I haven’t seen this exact question before in my search for an answer:

I was using my Wabbajack stick on a wolf and Lydia jumped in front of me to attack the wolf. I ended up blasting her with the stick and she disappeared. No body and no transformation that I could see. Is there any way to get her back from this? Might she have turned into an animal and run away unnoticed? If she died, wouldn’t her body still be there?

1 Answer

The Wabbajack has a long list of effects:

Fireball
Thunderbolt
Frost Rune
Heal Other
Disintegration
Transformation
- Summon effects: mudcrab, daedra, rabbit, chicken, chicken that explodes after 20 seconds and transforms back.
- Effect canceled on hit: chicken, rabbit, dremora lord, or a random draugr. Examples: draugr, goat, spectral, mudcrab
- Effects that eliminates target: sweetroll, fountain of septims or random books spawn.
- Leveled Dremora (common).
- May spawn a rabbit behind target, which target will see as an enemy. Upon said rabbit de-spawning, the target will teleport to where the rabbit last was.
Invisibility
Summon enemy dremora to attack them.
Ice Spike
Instant kill (ghostly remains; ghostly remains with sweetroll; normal remains; no body)
Fury
Fear
Drain stamina
Paralyze
Absorb health
Target explodes, turns into ghostly remains and scattered gold and pitchforks. Taking the gold counts as stealing
No effect
Replace enemies with random amounts of cheese.
Unspecified damage (no hit shader/FX)
Causes an explosion, which is a unique destruction spell. This only damages the target, unlike other exploding spells.